Tag: Mamata Banerjee

Identifying the suspect as Rajaram Rege, 53, the police said he was “planning something big” against the MP. Sources in the police said they suspected a possible “terror attack” and “threat” to Banerjee’s life. “Today, our officers arrested Rajaram Rege from Mahim in Mumbai. He had visited Kolkata, stayed ...

Union Minister and Matua leader Shantanu Thakur believes that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) will safeguard those belonging to the community by granting them "legal citizenship", thus preventing them from being labelled as foreigners in the event of "a potential National Register of Citizens (NRC) exercise in the next ...

Kolkata: The alliance Congress and Communist Party of India (Marxist) or the CPI(M) have formed in West Bengal is a conspiracy and voting for it will tantamount to voting for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Trinamool Congress (TMC) chairperson and chief minister Mamata Banerjee said at Nadia district on ...

In a reshuffle ahead of the Lok Sabha polls on Monday, the Election Commission (EC) moved West Bengal’s Director General of Police (DGP) Rajeev Kumar to the state’s Information and Technology department and appointed him its secretary.Vivek Sahay, a 1988-batch IPS officer, serving as the Director General and Commandant ...

BJP leader Tathagata Roy faced severe backlash for his comments and later clarified his earlier remarks on CAA. (File photo)The Trinamool Congress has termed Tathagata Roy’s comments on CAA a "vulgar jibe", questioning the "narrative" the BJP wanted to propagateVeteran BJP leader from West Bengal, Tathagata Roy, found himself ...

Mamata Banerjee. File | Photo Credit: AP West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on March 13 asserted that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) is linked with the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and that is the reason why she is opposing the new legislation. The Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo ...

The Trinamool Congress will oppose the National Register of Citizens if the Union government tries to carry out the exercise after the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said at a press conference on Monday.The National Register of Citizens is a proposed exercise ...

NEW DELHI: Suvendu Adhikari, the West Bengal BJP chief, launched a stinging attack on chief minister Mamata Banerjee over the delay in the arrest of key accused Sheikh Shahjahan in the Sandeshkahli sexual assault case.Hitting out at Mamata Banerjee for lodging 42 cases against him and failing to arrest ...

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday extended her support of a Sikh IPS officer who was allegedly called "Khalistani" by some Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) activists, saying that the official was only doing his duty and should not have been called a 'Khalistani' just for wearing a ...

KOLKATA: The West Bengal Police on Tuesday accused BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari, the leader of the opposition in the Bengal assembly, of calling a Sikh IPS officer a "Khalistani", prompting a strong reaction from CM Mamata Banerjee, who said BJP's "divisive politics" had "shamelessly overstepped constitutional boundaries." Adhikari has ...